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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (55147)	10/29/2004 11:34:11 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

On the subject of OBL and similar - plugging a great book ...Everybody keeps saying, Osama Bin Laden, Al-Qaida and Islamic fundamentalism are something new, well, let’s say relatively new; however it seems, that they’re all something very, very old, not to say antique or better medieval. Whoever has read the Slovenian literary miracle, Alamut, can attest to that. Vladimir Bartol (1903-1967), Slovenian Karl May, has written and published it long, long time ago, in the year 1938, in other words before WWII, when the likes of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were terrorizing Europe. This novel, leaning on Marco Polo’s itinerary, has been translated to many languages and is appreciated everywhere, from Spain to Germany, from France to Italy, from Bosnia to Checkia and from Turkey to Iran. This pop classic, rejected and ignored for a long time in Slovenia, has now been printed again here and never has it been as fresh, contemporary and visionary as it is now. It namely looks like it’s been written today, after 09/11. Whoever reads it, can only sigh: oh st, Osama bin Laden, Al.-Qaida and Islamic fundamentalism, they all existed already in the year 1092!* Of course, they just had different names. Osama bin Laden was called Hassan Ibn Sabbah … Al-Qaida were fedais … and the Islamic fundamentalism was called … hmm … Ismailism... Message 20697257 Message 20696656 buy the book directly at scalahousepress.com